Re: Prevent UserControl derivative from being designed

Doing it with source is pointless because an enterprising programmer will
just alter the source to suit his needs.

If you distribute as a DLL then the problem goes away because you can't
alter the class once it's compiled.

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"Tony Maresca" <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:Oa1PMG7oFHA.3300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi. I have a class derived from a UserControl,
> that I want to allow others to derive controls
> from. I don't want them to design the base
> class (which is derived from a UserControl).
>
> I know that I can prevent the control from being
> designed by making it not the first class in the
> code file, but is there another more 'official' way
> to do this via attributes.
>
> The user should be able to add the control's source
> to a project (or reference it in another assembly),
> and then select the control in the Inheritance Picker,
> to create a derived class, but I want to prevent the
> user from designing the base class.
>
> --
> Tony M.


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